[Info-vax] HW_NAME and HW_TYPE

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article
<ae4845a4-2a6f-44bf-a72a-af276acc8a6e at n1g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>, Hans
Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 

> Two different reasons for the behaviour I guess.
> The Digital Server 5305 never was supported by VMS officially. So it's
> quite remarkable in the
> first place that the OS recognizes the 5305 by its correct name. In
> fact all Digital Server models are identified correctly and the
> appropriate license requirements are in the LURT too. Which is why we
> can run VMS on these systems.

OK, this one works where one might expect it would not.

> The Qompaq professional workstation is a supported model and the only
> explanantion for the reported behaviour I can come up with is that its
> name is a string with an uncommonly long name and SH CLUSTER just
> isn't prepared for it.

That might be the explanation.